Okay, this is more responses more quickly than I expected…  Shoot me an email at thereallizndick@gmail.com and I'll give them to the first two responders.

HA!  I'm afraid this is too tame a flavor.  Perhaps if I made ketchup bitters?

I made spring rolls last night.  Marinated some boneless, skinless chicken breasts in a soy sauce/honey/ginger mix, then sauteed them and sliced them into thin strips.  They got rolled up with some spring lettuce, pea shoots, fresh cilantro and mint, avocado, red bell pepper, and some pickled carrots and daikon.  I…

Fellow booze enthusiasts, are any of you interested in a bottle of homemade, Liz n Dick brand husk cherry bitters?  I bottled up a batch this weekend and discovered that the recipe yielded many, many more 4-oz bottles than I need.  I've got two bottles that are unspoken for, so are there any takers here?

Circuses are so scary!  And if you're a kid who's not afraid of clowns, then you're likely a kid who is afraid of being mauled by a suddenly-rampaging elephant, because you've spent hours in the library morbidly reading about circus animal attacks without ever considering that your parents were going to actually take…

Ads?  Wow.  I'd never even suspected.  I've never eaten at a Cheesecake Factory because the one time I went in one I looked at the size of the menu and told my friends we were going somewhere else because, "Jack of all trades, master of none."  Well.  It turns out that with all that menu filler, Cheesecake Factory is…

This is the kind of survey I wish would interrupt my dinner.  Instead all I get is shit about actual issues that actually matter.  BOOOOO!

This poll sounds like perhaps the greatest thing ever.  It seems like something my cat would come up with if she knew how to dial a phone.

Awww, your dad sounds like a good guy.  :)

I wish I could like this a million times over.

No one's going to read this far, but my longest-loved movie is Blake Edwards' The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood and Peter Falk…  My dad was super-strict about letting us watch non G-rated movies, but he'd work hard to bring older stuff home from the video store for us to watch instead. …

Thanks a lot, Buzz.  Now you've ruined my childhood.

I have a friend who works with disadvantaged kids from a really tough area, and she showed her class Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving a few years ago.  When Peppermint Patty grouses about the crappy dinner Snoopy puts together, one of the little boys watching it launched into a profane, outraged rant about how terrible…

I'm watching the entire series run in order on DVD right now, and that episode came fairly close to the big lesbian reveal, too.  So it's not even like it would have been completely out of mind when her departure popped up.  Considering how little character development the writers had to keep in order, this seems like…

@LJo1:disqus I know, right?  When I'm shopping there it's always just like, "I'll take one of each."  You absolutely can't go wrong, though!

A friend of mine at work had a catastrophic haircut because of the stylist's inability to deal with his hair's ethnic characteristics.  By the end of the haircut session she was in tears, he was screaming at her manager, and the stylist was sobbing, "It's just… your hair is so straight!"  "Of course it is," he roared…

I love my SodaStream, but I never use it to make, like flavored sodas.  Just fizzy water.  It's fantastic (although I really love my tap water, so if your tap water sucks then I wouldn't recommend it).

Zabe!  Holy shit!  I, um, might know someone whose name is Elizabeth, and that person might really dislike having that name, and might have spent most of her life trying and failing to find one of the 10 billion nicknames for Elizabeth that she thinks fits her.  And she never even once considered Zabe.  If this…

There seems to be a strong consensus for Eleanor here, but I feel that the adult Eleanor I know would want me to point out that school kids are well aware that "smelly whore" rhymes with "Eleanor".  Well aware.

The first house I bought was one that caused a lot of hemming and
hawing before we decided, "Oh, fine."  It ended up being a perfectly cromulent, but the second house we bought was definitely a thunderbolt-from-on-high kind of place.  We drove by an open house when we weren't even actually looking to move, decided to…